“A member of the party who joins and/or supports a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the party, or supports any candidate who stands against an official Labour candidate, or publicly declares their intent to stand against a Labour candidate, shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a party member….”

A Labour Party spokesperson, said: “Our focus is getting Labour’s excellent candidate Helal Abbas elected as Tower Hamlets’ Mayor. We will look into the allegations made in due course after the election.”

Talking about ducking the issue. What is there to investigate? The video only takes a couple of minutes to watch. I’ve just asked the Labour press office why it is applying one rule to the town hall and another to the House of Lords.

I seem to have missed Ted’s blog on this report by BBC London News. You’d think he’d write something about it, given that he had enough time and energy to cover a little known hustings event between the candidate. Is this selective amnesia?? Come on Ted.

“Matthew” – I’m not quite sure what you want me to say about the BBC interview. It added nothing new to the debate. What we saw was a man (Abbas) who’s clearly been trained to stick to a pre-prepared answer and not to deviate from it. I suspect very strongly that he was advised to answer any questions about Lutfur or the dossier by accentuating the positives in his own campaign.
The BBC reporter did well to press him on the dossier and Abbas realised he needed to adapt his response by talking about “due processes” etc. He looked nervous and he probably was.
He’s clearly not that comfortable in front of a camera that is beaming to millions rather than thousands. But neither is Lutfur: witness his interview with Andrew Gilligan on Disptaches, when it was his turn to answer awkward questions.

Ted, are you seriously giving any sort of value and weight to that trashy blog called Harry’s Place? It is full of racists, islamaphobes and xenophobes! Harry’s Place is a vile place full of the stink of cavemen grunting their racist comments!

Harriet was asked that question by ELA just now at a press conference. She didn’t say that he was kicked out of the party, but she was harsh. You’ll have to ask Julia for what exactly she said.
The problem is that he has a vote in the Lords which gives him power.

“Ted” – you say it adds “nothing” to the debate. You must have been watching a different interview.

There you go, trying to compensate for Abbas’ shambolic performance as “nerves”. If it was the other way around i.e. Lutfur Rahman unable to answer a Q, you would have presented it out as an example of his incompetence. Since you now seem to be an expert on the thought process of politicians, perhaps you can also bring yourself to recall that Lutfur was democratically elected by the Labour party members to be the mayoral candidate – but the NEC kicked him out – he had to stand as an independent – in the interest of fairness and DEMOCRACY (something we go to war for) people feel that it was an injustice and so are supprting Lutfur – hence you are getting labour councillors and members of the upper chamber of our great parliament rebelling against the imposition of Abbas.

Well, “Matthew”, you know my name. Be brave and reveal yourself.
If it had been the other way around, I would have said the same thing – and I did…that he was nervous. Why he was nervous is a different question. I don’t think there is anyone in the Labour party who does not feel that the selection process was not a disgraceful shambles. And I’ve said that before.
I also know that there were deep concerns about the party membership. But the NEC is the party’s governing body and it’s for members (like you?) to sort that out. It’s up to the wider electorate to choose who becomes mayor.
What is clear is that this campaign has brought out some pretty disgusting, thuggish elements living in our community and that there are people out there whipping up personal and racial hatred.
I trust you’re not one of those, “Matthew”.

There we go “Ted” – I thought we could have an INTELLIGENT debate and before you know it, you do what you know best: try to SMEAR me by associating me with “whipping up personal and racial hatred”. Any rational individual would tell from our exchange that if anything, it’s your behaviour thats “thuggish”.

Pointless, cos Lutfur couldnt find anyone else to endorse him. I liked the question by one of the journalists at Harriet Harman’s confrence, who asked why Pola uddin was not present in the Abbas Campaign. I would think, she probably would do more damage than help, with her current status.

If anyone saw Lutfur yesterday on Ch S. the guy was begging, pleading, would have been on his knees had someone not stopped him,and all to make Shiraz at Clifton the mayor

Abbas is not fit to be a Mayor and everybody in their heart knows that. So let’s cut out the bull***t. It must be hard to go out and campaign for Abbas knowing that he came through the back door and he just is not a worthy candidate. You all will have to leave with that guilt and the compromise.

We all know that out of the five candidates, it is Lutfur first and John Griffith second who are the strongest.

The mayoral system is new in Tower Hamlets so let’s have a change from Labour for once.

So you think Lutfur represents change? Change in what exactly? He has the same manifesto as he did before he got the boot, and the same incompetent councillors backing him. So I ask again, what change does he offer?

I watched the propaganda programmes on channel S, they have already been fined before for breaking broadcasting regulations in 2008. The misrepresenation of all parties was clear.
Lutfur looked pathetic when he was begging to the audience as if he was a charity case, that is not why someone should vote for you.
Few other things I noticed in the programmes , the labour,conservative and lib dem candidates did not address the viewers but addressed the presenter Mahee the fraudster. I think at one point the conservative candidate looked right at the camera to address the viewers but Mahee asked him not to look at the camera and address him. However when luthfer came on the whole time he was addressing the viewer and Mahee was not in the shot.Someone needs to provide a translation of luthers speech to see what he really is like, he is causing divisions in communities and we need to boot him out of TH

I also noticed how the badge Luther was wearing was very similar to labours red badge, I think this is intentional to make the illerate viewersand voters confused. I

Regarding Lord Nazir Ahmad and Labour’s failure to expel him from the party for supporting Rahman. Well, apparently it isn’t double standards and it is because he is NOT a member of the Labour Party!! Apparently he was kicked out in 2009 after he was imprisoned for dangerous driving (resulting in two deaths).

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